The Chicken Zombies

Chapter 5-- Lovesick Shakira

Dante swung around in her seat and demanded, "State your name and business!" to the SUV's newest passenger.

The person in the back held up his hands in surrender. "Dolph Zeigler, I didn't eat any chicken and I want to help you!"

Shakira slammed on the brakes in the middle of the road. Wow, Dante thought. We're in town- How hasn't she been pulled over yet?

Turning, a dumbstruck look fell over Shakira's face. "Dolph?"

He waved a small wave. "Uh, hey, Shakira."

"Wha- wha-" She ran a hand through her hair. "Uh, hi Dolph. Erm, what are you... What are you doing here, in our lovely SUV?"

"It's not ours, Dummy," Dante said. She looked at Dolph. ¨We hijacked it.¨

"Oh, well that's nice."

"Yeah," said Shakira. "It really is." Her voice changed a bit when she talked to him, Dante noticed, and Dante wondered if Shakira was... interested in Dolph.

"Anyway," Dante intervened. "Dolph, you won the foot skills competition... how are you not a chicken zombie?"

"I'm a vegetarian, so I just offered mine to Ryan. He ate it."

"So you're," flirted Shakira. "Against animal cruelty? That's so... manly."

Dante rolled her eyes.

Dolph smiled and blushed a little.

"Ugh, I'm gonna hurl," Dante murmured before saying, "So what is Rosenpinis planning and how do we stop him?"

"He's plotting to take over the tri-state area by hypnotizing people into doing his bidding. He started with making our class do his daily chores, like doing the laundry and the dishes and whatever. But if you get poked in the eye by a chicken zombie, you become a chicken zombie.¨

Dante and Shakira gasped.

It was silent a mere second before Shakira exclaimed, "This is just like Night of the Living Pharmacists!"

"Um, what?" Dolph said, and Dante wondered the same thing.

"Phineas and Ferb season four: When Doofenshmirtz turned the entire city of Danville into mindless clones of himself. And if you got touched by one, you became one."

"So," Dante said, a question in her voice. "What you're saying is that Ronaldo Rosenpinis is copying a cartoon character for his evil plan?"

"That's exactly what I'm saying, Dante." Shakira put on a pair of aviator sunglasses that appeared from seemingly nowhere. "And I know just how to stop him."